Legal English : Legal Secretaries

Helping key legal staff to communicate

Typical course participants

This specialised programme is designed for legal secretaries who need to improve their confidence, fluency and efficiency.

Course content summary

This intensive course will help you to deal with legal documents or commercial correspondence in English including email and formal letters. It also introduces key legal vocabulary and general business vocabulary and covers a wide range of telephone techniques, dealing with visitors and handling difficult clients. You will also discuss ways to help you to get the most from your working relationship with other key legal staff.

Benefits of doing this course

Whichever course you take with us, you can expect to improve your English in the following ways:

communicate more confidently
speak more accurately and fluently
participate more successfully in meetings
improve your written English including emails
expand your professional vocabulary
improve your understanding of grammar
socialise and network with greater confidence
work successfully in a cross-cultural environment

In addition to the benefits outlined above, you can expect to communicate much more confidently in legal situations, use specialised legal vocabulary more effectively, write clearer letters and emails and feel more comfortable with legal terms.

Course content

Course participants can expect the following areas to be covered in the course:

communication skills needed in work situations
written communication including email and formal letters
lawyer-legal secretary relationship
key legal vocabulary and general business vocabulary
developing active listening techniques
intercultural communication and working in a cross-cultural environment
news and current affairs
grammar and pronunciation as necessary

Professional hospitality, hosting and entertaining visitors and handling social situations are important for many business people, as is confidence when using the telephone. Areas covered would therefore include:

meeting and greeting
receiving visitors
socialising
using the telephone effectively

Sample timetable

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Group size maximum 8
Minimum age 25
Average age 43
28 hours per week (28 x 60 minutes)
09.00 - 17.00 Monday - Thursday
09.00 - 15.00 Friday
Fixed start dates
1 week course